J-Pod: Interesting. Seems to me that in 1982, in Hama, Hafez al-Assad wiped out an uprising against his regime by slaughtering 25,000 over a weekend. And in 1991, Saddam Hussein took down the Shiite uprising with similar viciousness. The idea that such monstrous tactics don't work...
... which makes it all the harder to acknowledge when he nails one on the head. Some choice quotes:I was just in the middle of writing a long and tedious.
What is it about "hawkish" pundits that they can't understand nationalism?In Iraq, the leviathan has somehow managed to give the impression that what previous mid-rank powers would have regarded as.
My contrarian cred is established! Seriously, it's a strange world in which any of my empirical analysis would even be considered controversial; as Ponnuru himself recently noted, pro-lifers who want to overturn Roe are not, in fact, irrational, and unless you're trying to pitch an article...
I think it's time we dispense with this fiction:I think that [Drum's] reference to "casual genocide" as the preferred strategy of pro-war people is pretty clear, and pretty absurd. Yeah,.
In the light of Pat Gillick being sold several acres of North Dakota oceanfront property by Brian Cashman, Joe Sheehan asks a good question: How's that taxpayer-funded ballpark working out.
Who knew?Day by day, even as Iran’s officials assess the military setbacks of Hezbollah, they have grown more and more emboldened by the gathering support in the Islamic world for the Iranian-backed Lebanese militia on the front line with Israel. They have grown more and more...
Wow. Wouldn't that be a kicker, if Fidel picked this moment to shuffle off the mortal coil?Everybody knows that US Cuba policy wins no prizes for rationality. That the US.
Huh. I'll allow that I've probably had a .12 blood alchohol content my share of times, and I've certainly done things worthy of apology, but I don't recall ever blaming.
Praktike is quite right; one of the things that has disappeared in a cloud of Lebanese dust over the past two weeks has been Condi Rice's reputation as a diplomat. I wasn't quite willing to give her much credit as Sec State, but from what I...
Erik in comments and Roy via email object to my snideness about JFK, and I'm willing to do at least a partial walkback. I certainly hold to my core assumptions:.
Remember when a whole bunch of reactionaries suddenly discovered women's rights as a club to bash people who opposed the high-cost replacement of a secular dictatorship with a low-capacity quasi-theocracy.